Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS)

Great Minds; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Great Minds... Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS) will lead discovery and execution for content authoring tools, end‑user delivery experiences, and CMS, ensuring scalable, high‑quality K–12 experiences for teachers, students, and admins.

This remote, full‑time role requires hands-on product leadership with a strong systems mindset and the ability to influence across teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience with senior ownership of complex platforms.
• Experience serving multiple user types (authors, teachers, students, admins, internal teams).
• Deep understanding of content authoring tools, CMS platforms, and structured content systems.
• Strong systems thinking—reason about data models, workflows, and downstream impacts.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and lead through collaboration.
• Comfort working hands-on with detailed requirements while maintaining strategic perspective.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve product vision for content authoring tools and delivery.
• Balance usability with structural rigor for downstream delivery, analytics, and interoperability.
• Partner with curriculum and assessment teams to translate instructional intent into scalable capabilities.
• In partnership with leadership, form product strategy for how authored content is delivered to teachers, students, and admins.
• Ensure delivery experiences are performant, accessible, intuitive, and instructionally sound.
• Work closely with Digital Product Design to validate classroom workflows.
• Initiate CMS direction conversations including content models, workflows, permissions, versioning, and publishing; collaborate with Design and Engineering.
• Ensure CMS supports multiple products, grade levels, subjects, delivery contexts, and modalities.
• Partner with Engineering on long-term platform scalability and maintainability.
• Set clear product strategy and success metrics for authoring, delivery, and CMS capabilities.
• Translate complex instructional and operational needs into well-scoped product initiatives.
• Write roadmaps and product requirements when defined.
• Collaborate with Product Design to ground decisions in user needs and evidence.
• Partner with Engineering to balance speed, quality, and technical health.
• Influence roadmap priorities in partnership with Product Management and leadership.
• Act as subject matter expert on content platforms for Great Minds products.
• Identify and reduce friction across the content lifecycle—from creation to classroom use.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Systems thinking

Stakeholder influence

User-centered design

Requirement writing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CMS platforms

Content authoring tools

Data modeling

Job description

Who We Are

Great Minds is a high-growth, mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation, we believe all students deserve access to meaningful, challenging content—and all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive, effective, and built for the realities of today’s classrooms.

We develop high-quality, knowledge-rich math, science and ELA curricula grounded in research and designed in collaboration with educators. Our materials reflect real classroom needs and are built to drive lasting student outcomes.

We are committed to usability, coherence, and practical implementation—supporting teachers not just through curriculum, but with professional learning, purposeful technology, and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact.

What We Build

Our products—Eureka Math and Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom, PhD Science, Geodes, and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELA— are trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide.

• Eureka Math is the most widely used math curriculum in the U.S., and is focused on balancing conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application.

• Wit & Wisdom® and Arts & Letters ELA™ anchor our reading strategy with content-rich, grade-level instruction that integrates literature, history, and the arts, grounded in the science of reading. Geodes® complements our reading suite with decodable texts that pair phonics with meaningful content to support early literacy.

• PhD Science is a hands‑on K-5 Science program that sparks curiosity as students build enduring knowledge of how the scientific world works.

These programs reflect a shared belief in high expectations, joyful rigor, and deep respect for educators and students.

Where We’re Headed

Great Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected, customer‑informed experiences across the full educator journey—from curriculum to professional learning to platform and support.

Our long-term vision is to become a true partner in impact—not just delivering curriculum, but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Director, Digital Product Management, the Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS) will lead discovery and execution for our content authoring tools, end‑user delivery experiences, and content management system (CMS). This role will be critical to how curriculum and assessment content is created, managed, and experienced by teachers, students, administrators, and internal teams. This is a top‑level individual contributor role with broad ownership and influence. The position will work with product design, engineering, curriculum, and assessment teams to ensure Great Minds’ authoring and delivery platforms are coherent, scalable, and deeply supportive of high‑quality K–12 instructional and assessment experiences. The role will partner closely with Product Design, Engineering, and other teams in and outside the Digital department.

Responsibilities

• Content Authoring Platforms:

  • Define and evolve the product vision for tools used to author curriculum and assessment content.

  • Balance usability for authors with structural rigor required for downstream delivery, analytics, and interoperability.

  • Partner with curriculum and assessment teams to translate instructional intent into scalable software capabilities.

• End User Content Delivery:

  • In partnership with the Chief Technology Officer, directors, and other leaders, form product strategy for how authored content is delivered to teachers, students, and administrators.

  • Ensure delivery experiences are performant, accessible, intuitive, and instructionally sound.

  • Work closely with Digital Product Design to validate real classroom and instructional workflows.

• CMS and Content Architecture:

  • Initiate and sometimes facilitate product direction conversations for the CMS, including content models, workflows, permissions, versioning, and publishing—working with but deferring to expert partners in Product Design and Engineering.

  • Ensure the CMS supports multiple products, grade levels, subjects, delivery contexts, and modalities.

  • Partner with Engineering on long‑term platform scalability and maintainability.

• Responsibilities:

  • Set clear product strategy and success metrics for authoring, delivery, and CMS capabilities.

  • Translate complex instructional and operational needs into well‑scoped product initiatives.

  • Write clear roadmap proposals and product requirements when they are defined.

  • Collaborate deeply with Product Design to ground decisions in user needs and evidence.

  • Partner with Engineering to make sound trade‑offs across speed, quality, and technical health.

  • Influence roadmap priorities in partnership with Product Management and leadership.

  • Act as a subject matter expert on content platforms for Great Minds commercial products.

  • Identify and reduce friction across the content lifecycle—from creation to classroom use.

• 7+ years of product management experience, with senior level ownership of complex platforms or systems

• Experience building products that serve multiple user types (authors, teachers, students, admins, internal teams) and not exclusively authors

• Deep understanding of content authoring tools, CMS platforms, and structured content systems

• Strong systems thinking—able to reason about data models, workflows, and downstream impacts

• Proven ability to influence without authority and lead through collaboration

• Comfort working hands on with detailed requirements while maintaining strategic perspective

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with K–12 curriculum and assessment products

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree

Status

Full-time

Location

Remote

The expected base salary range for this position is $151,000-$170,000, however the offered salarymay be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organization’s commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.